Danny Says

the morning of my fifth birthday party, the house was a buzz with preparation for the festivities later in the day; Mom was in the kitchen preparing food while Dad, my oldest brother, Danny, and I were decorating for the big day when there was knock at the door. I was not allowed to answer the door before but Danny said it was probably one of my friends arriving early and I should go let them in. I ran to the door with anticipation and excitement of who it might be. There was a skinny white…

There is a story told in Lime Springs, Iowa about the lidtke Mill how it is haunted. People say 5 girls went in there and they never seen them again. Here how it began. 5 boys were near lime springs, iowa. They wanted something to do so, they first said let's go play hide and seek and the yard at night. They were playing that for an hour and they kinda got bored after it for a while. They they said let's go the mill and play the Ouija board there, then play hide and seek. They started…

puzzle. The picture on the box is our worldview. Your world view is just how you naturally feel about things. It could be feelings towards others, and the way we view others. Worldview has a strong impact on the way we form our opinions. In this book he says “we need to recognize at the outset that a worldview is rooted in who we are at our deepest level.” (Ostrander 19) In order to change our beliefs, we need to change how we see the world. Our world view needs to be understanding of everyone…

manipulating time. He was fascinated with breaking the conventional linear storytelling and loves films where there was no end to the dialogue. Soderbergh recognized that human brains are non-linear so films should be expressed that way too. Soderbergh says, “It is like an uninterrupted conversation that would cut across the three temporal levels, a verbal flow analogous to the interior monologue.” The Limey was Soderbergh first film that he was able to edit and recreate the story in a…

tragedies of the century in which Kubrick grew up affected him, especially the Holocaust given Kubrick’s Jewish roots. The film of The Shining indeed holds various visual, auditory, and thematic references the ties it to the Holocaust, and Diane Johnson says of the idea that these details show a preoccupation on Kubrick’s part, “Certainly this focus was never mentioned to me or discussed as part of his conscious intention, but his interest in the extermination of Indian…

In the film American History X directed by Tony Kaye, he tell the story of morden day narzi’s (Neo Narzi). Tony uses many film techniques to portray the life of Derek Vinyard and his brother Danny Vinyard. In this movie Derek goes to prison and the experience changed his view on black people. The purpose of the first scene was to show how dark and twisted Derek’s past was. For example the kurb stomp scene, where Derek brutally murders a black man. The purpose of the second scene was to show how…

in order to save Danny and Wendy Torrance. He emerges victorious, and even helps the mother and son overcome their grief. However, in the film version, Stanley Kubrick frames Hallorann as a weak, insignificant individual in comparison to the whites around him. Hallorann is murdered almost immediately upon arrival to the hotel, and his efforts are not acknowledged. Whereas King illustrates that…

5.4%; Asians, 4.1%, and others, 4.6%. Mexico (38.4%) and the United Kingdom (8.5%) were the most common places of birth for the 22.3% of the residents who were born abroad—considered a low figure for Los Angeles.” (Wikipedia) The film begins with Danny being tasked to write a class paper entitled “American History X,” in which he is to analyze and interpret the events surrounding his brother Derek’s incarceration, explaining how these events helped to shape his present perspective concerning…

Justin Evans’ A Good and Happy Child and Stephen King’s The Shining both use the theme of uncertainty to say that things aren’t always what they seem. They show this by using a scene with a baseball bat, generations of people, and by having characters see something that isn’t there. Evans’ and King’s works both portray the theme of uncertainty, that says things aren’t always what they seem, by using a scene with a baseball bat. For example, A Good and Happy Child goes back and forth between the…

Although we don’t entirely know how Danny dies, we are told that he was found floating in a pool badly bruised. While meeting up with the Riordan family Danny had come up in conversation. Mrs. Riordan brought out Danny 's autopsy photos. This was a disturbing sight for MacDonald. He says “I had to go numb to look at the bruised dead face of one of the liveliest people I’d ever known” (MacDonald 232). It was suspicious how Danny passed away; he was the person in which his family revolved…